Let's Play as a Pro Baseball Team: Zaniest Game Ever?

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These boys have big heads, but they play with tiny balls.

By IGN Staff

Whoever thought of pairing up big headed characters and baseball is a genius. Whether you're playing through Konami's Jikkyu Powerful Pro Baseball or Sega's own Let's Play as a Pro Baseball Team or Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team, there's one thing we can all agree upon: baseball videogames just look better when the players' heads are bigger than their bodies.

Okay, maybe we can't all agree on that, but we're pretty sure no one would argue that the big headed players make these games look just plane zany. Loony. Wacky. Crazy. Take a peek at our videos and screens of Let's Play as a Pro Baseball Team and see if you can come up with your very own adjective.

Let's Play as a Pro Baseball Team was released to Japan late last year as a successor to Sega's Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team. Whereas the earlier title focused on your managing a team, dealing with such minute details as actually choosing a secretary for your office, its sequel gives you control of the action. You actually play the game using a simplified version of what one would find in the World Series Baseball series of titles out of Sega.

This isn't necessarily as full a product as some of the more serious baseball games out there, but you will find plenty to do. You can import your team data from Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team, and can even pit your teams against other teams online using a Pay-per-play service by Sega. The actual game itself houses, in addition to the standard versus and single player season modes, a tournament mode and a home run derby. All of these modes can be played through in a variety of different, colorful stadiums using a variety of different teams.

The game looks and sounds quite impressive. This is Sega, afterall, and they haven't skimped on the presentation what-so ever. Everything has a comical look to it, with animated faces and colors so bright we're sure they're using All. The onscreen action moves at 60 frames per second throughout, just adding to the overall solid look of the game.

Oh, and did we mention the big headed characters? We're pretty sure most out there aren't interested in picking up this game, and that the game will never, ever, ever arrive in America, but regardless, you ought to check out the videos for a good, long laugh at how wacky things can get over in Japan.